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🇮🇷| Sayyed Mojtaba Khamenei — the 3rd leader of Iran:
Also has a military Background (Iran-Iraq War)
• In 1986, he served on the front lines of the Iran-Iraq War at the age of 17 as a volunteer.
• He was part of the Habib bin Mazahir Battalion of the 27th Mohammad Rasool-Allah Division.
• He participated in several major military operations, including:
PS: Contrary to propaganda claims, he DOES NOT have assets abroad. The UK daily mail has neen spreading this nonsense.
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I gotta say electing the leaders son did give me a bad feeling initially. But seeing that he was a volunteer on the front lines at 17 and having been the second pick makes me feel much better about this.
I actually think it’s one of the better choices they could have made. I don’t know much about the other possible candidates but i suspect that they would have been generally on the older side. For a political and religious leader he is quite young which is a good thing because you don’t want to end up in a perpetual gerontocracy.
Having someone younger could re-vitalize the whole system and inject much needed energy and impetus, and maybe be less conservative and cautious.
My fear of nepotism is strong. But then I think of the descriptions of how the late Leader lived, with his simple furnishings and modest home and it makes me more confident. He lived in a simple way and rejected luxury that so easily could have been his. A man who does that probably isn’t going to raise an entitled asshole son and if he somehow did he would have made sure people knew not to put his asshole son in power.